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Writing to the king : nation, kingship, and literature in England, 1250-1350 /

In the century before Chaucer a new language of political critique emerged. In political verse of the period, composed in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English, poets write as if addressing the king himself, drawing on their sense of the rights granted by Magna Carta. These apparent appeals...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Matthews, David, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 77.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Defending Anglia
  • Attacking Scotland : Edward I and the 1290s
  • Regime change
  • The destruction of England : crisis and complaint c.1300-41
  • Love letters to Edward III
  • Envoy
  • Appendix. The tail-rhyme poems of Langtoft's chronicle.